sexuality

So it’s January 2018, I am doing my regular morning scroll on the TL while on my commute to work. Nothing out of the ordinary: Trump doing a madness, some guy chatting about women deceiving men with make-up, a girl promoting her christian blog, and then BAM. H&M’s new children’s campaign comes up. The monkey-jumper […]

It’s no secret that homophobia is rife in Africa and the diaspora; at large. From the one thousand and one songs we all bop to condemning gay people to death, to the fact that homosexuality is still deemed a criminal activity in most African countries, it’s safe to say that most Africans were raised in […]

The imagery of a white woman clutching her purse tightly at the sight of a black boy is one of the most powerful images in society because it tells us everything that we need to know about the way society sees black manhood, black masculinity and black male bodies. In part 1 of On Blackness […]

On blackness and masculinity part 1: am I not black enough? Sometimes I despise how much we centre the Black British Experience around being from ‘inner city’ London and how much we centre the culture that comes along with that experience. I grew up in Orpington, which is in Bromley. It’s on the outskirts of […]

Rape culture is a sociological/anthropological term (no, it’s not crazy SJW talk) used to describe how rape is prevalent and normalised due to societal attitudes about gender and sexuality. Rape culture refers to how, as a culture, we are socialised to see certain situations as normal or “just how things are”. It ranges from ‘harmless’ […]